7 :: Mapbox embedded in a Box

At first, I wasn’t sure why Mapbox was providing a service to create customized maps on their site – especially as the list of features that one could add were useful.. but limited. But I thought I would try it out anyway. Here’s a map I made with some bogus markers on it:

But this is why it good to try things out – because after I hit publish, I saw that other than the standard embed via iframe, there were other options for published maps:

And this is another border of terra incognita (which would have been perhaps an even more awesome name for this blog) for me: how to make maps that work both on the internet and in the mobile device.

Add to the “to learn list” :

The MapBox Mobile SDK is a complete, open source toolkit for native iOS mapping applications. It’s familiar to users of Apple’s MapKit framework, but offers greater flexibility for custom maps, offline use, and general customizability.